Collective Intelligence...as this is called: Google is using its search engine to assemble real-time data related to flu onset in the U.S. Anyone searching for terms related to flu, symptoms, care, remedies, etc., are tracked by their IP address. In this way Google can plot where the inquiries originate. See google.org/flutrends for graphs, etc. What's next, STDs?
Tests last year show that google was two weeks faster tracking flu than the Center For Diseases.
-tp.
